ICANN Releases Draft For New TLDs

NdJ writes "Looks like a whole new domain name battle ground is about to open up. ICANN have just made available their How to Apply for a New Generic Top-Level Domain Draft Applicant Guidebook. It won't be cheap for the individual, but certainly achievable for many domain-name-pimps. 'The Evaluation Fee is designed to make the new gTLD program self-funding only. This was a recommendation of the Generic names Supporting Organization. A detailed costing methodology — including historical program development costs, and predictable and uncertain costs associated with processing new gTLD applications through to delegation in the root zone — estimates a per applicant fee of $US185,000. This is the estimated cost per evaluation in the first application round.'"

Comments

Re:Might as well...

[Dogtanian]

Of course, this means a company like McDonalds will now be forced to register "mcdonalds.[every possible alphanumeric string]" -- this ought to be interesting.

Does this mean ICANN has cheezburger?

Re:So who is going to register...

[a whoabot]

I'll just end this here and take LobsterThermidorACrevetteWithAMornaySauceServedInAProvencaleManner-
WithShallotsAndAuberginesGarnishedWithTrufflePateBrandyAndWithAFriedEggOnTopAnd.spam